Mexico’s decision last week to impose tariffs of up to 50 per cent on a wide swath of Chinese and other Asian imports is more than a neighborhood scuffle. It is a major milestone in President Trump’s trade revolution — and in the postwar international trading system itself.
Now, one of America’s closest trading partners is openly aligning its tariff wall with the US to block Beijing’s predatory export machine. Mexico’s Senate has approved new duties on more than 1,400 products
Mexico’s move shows that Trump’s tariff strategy is no longer an American outlier, but the global template for a tougher, fairer trading order. Trump is leading a wholesale overhaul of a broken system that for decades turned trade into a zero-sum game — with China winning factories, jobs and wealth while the rest of the world absorbed the losses.
The sooner our allies follow Mexico’s lead, the sooner we can turn trade back into a genuine win-win: secure supply chains, rising wages and shared prosperity built on production rather than predation.
Obey
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